384th Air Expeditionary Group

384th Air Expeditionary Group
384th Air Expeditionary Group
	Emblem of the 384th Bombardment Group
Active	1991–1994; 2003;
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	Air Combat Command

The 384th Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command. The group may be activated or inactivated at any time.

It was first organized at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas as the operational element of the 384th Wing, inactivating in 1994 as the bomber force at McConnell was drawing down. Its last active assignment was with to the United States Central Command Air Forces at Shaikh Isa Air Base, Bahrain. It was inactivated on 3 September 2003.

History

On 1 September 1991, the 384th Operations Group was activated at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas as a result of the 384th Wing implementing the USAF objective wing organization. The 384th was assigned control of the 28th Bomb Squadron, flying Rockwell B-1B Lancers, and the 384th Air Refueling Squadron, flying Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, as its operational units, and the 384th Operations Support Squadron. When the Air Force reorganized its commands in June 1992, the 384th Air Refueling Squadron was transferred to the 19th Operations Group of Air Mobility Command (AMC), while the remainder of the group became part of Air Combat Command. The group was inactivated on 1 January 1994, as the bomber force at McConnell was being reduced prior to the transfer of the base to AMC. It transferred its remaining units to the 384 Wing, which was redesignated as 384th Bomb Group.

The group was redesignated the 384th Air Expeditionary Group in December 2001. It was reactivated at Shaikh Isa Air Base, Bahrain in June 2003, three months after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was replaced by the 384th Air Expeditionary Wing in September.

Lineage

Constituted as the 384th Operations Group on 29 August 1991

Activated on 1 September 1991

Inactivated on 1 January 1994

Redesignated 384th Air Expeditionary Group and converted to provisional status on 4 December 2001

Activated on 4 June 2003

Inactivated on 3 September 2003

Assignments

384th Wing (later 384th Bomb Wing), 1 September 1991 – 1 January 1994
Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate as needed after 4 December 2001

Attached to United States Central Command Air Forces), 4 June 2003 – 3 September 2003

Components

28th Bomb Squadron, 1 September 1991 – 1 January 1994
384th Air Refueling Squadron, 1 September 1991 – 1 June 1992
384th Operations Support Squadron, 1 September 1991 – 1 January 1994

Stations

McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 1 September 1991 – 1 January 1994
Shaikh Isa Air Base, Bahrain, 4 June – 3 September 2003

Aircraft

Rockwell B-1B Lancer, 1991–1994
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, 1991–1992

References

Notes

Explanatory notes

↑ DAF/XPM Letter 273s-8 revoked the designation of the 384th Bomb Group as the 384th Air Expeditionary Group and instead redesignated the 384th Operations Group as the 384th Air Expeditionary Group, retroactive to December 2001.

Citations

1 2 Robertson, Patsy (30 March 2007). "Factsheet 28 Bomb Squadron (ACC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
1 2 3 Musser, James (1 September 2022). "Factsheet 384 Air Refueling Squadron (AMC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
1 2 3 4 DAF/XPM Letter 273s-8, 7 August 2002 4 December 2001 Subject: Air Combat Command Expeditionary Units

Bibliography

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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Owens, Walter E. As Briefed by Walter H. Owens, a Family History of the 384th Bombardment Group. New York: Edward Stern & Co., 1946 (2nd edition 1980, addendum to 1st edition published 1974).
Rogers, Brian. United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, UK: Midland Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-85780-197-0.
Smith, Dale O. Screaming Eagle: Memoir of a B-17 Group Commander. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990.

External links

Media related to 384th Bombardment Group (United States Army Air Forces) at Wikimedia Commons
384th Bomb Group, Inc., a history-preservation organization of the group's World War II veterans (and, more recently, their descendants)

[4] DAF/XPM Letter 273s-8 revoked the designation of the 384th Bomb Group as the 384th Air Expeditionary Group and instead redesignated the 384th Operations Group as the 384th Air Expeditionary Group, retroactive to December 2001.

[28BSfacts-1] 1 2 Robertson, Patsy (30 March 2007). "Factsheet 28 Bomb Squadron (ACC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 4 March 2026.

[384AREFSfacts-2] 1 2 3 Musser, James (1 September 2022). "Factsheet 384 Air Refueling Squadron (AMC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 5 March 2026.

[XPM273s-3] 1 2 3 4 DAF/XPM Letter 273s-8, 7 August 2002 4 December 2001 Subject: Air Combat Command Expeditionary Units

384th Air Expeditionary Group
Emblem of the 384th Bombardment Group
Active	1991–1994 2003
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	Air Combat Command